Ted White (1938, 2026)
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Author and editor TED WHITE, 88, died May 24, 2026. He was in palliative care. Theodore Edwin White was born February 4, 1938. He contributed to SF fanzines at a young age and won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1968. He was assistant editor at F&SF from 1963-1968 and editor for Amazing Stories and Fantastic from 1968-1978. As an author, he wrote Invasion from 2500 (1964) with …Read More The post Ted White (1938, 2026) appeared first on Locus.
Ted White (1979)
Author and editor TED WHITE, 88, died May 24, 2026. He was in palliative care.
Theodore Edwin White was born February 4, 1938. He contributed to SF fanzines at a young age and won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1968. He was assistant editor at F&SF from 1963-1968 and editor for Amazing Stories and Fantastic from 1968-1978. As an author, he wrote Invasion from 2500 (1964) with Terry Carr, Lost in Space (1967) with Dave Van Arnam, Sideslip (1968) with Dave Van Arnam, No Time Like Tomorrow (1969), By Furies Possessed (1970), Trouble on Project Ceres (1971), and Forbidden World (1978) with David Bischoff. He wrote Android Avenger (1965) and The Spawn of the Death Machine (1968) in the Tanner series. He wrote Phoenix Prime (1966), The Sorceress of Qar (1966), and Star Wolf! (1971) in the Qanar series. He also wrote more than two dozen works of short fiction. He edited The Best from Amazing Stories (1973) and The Best from Fantastic (1973). He briefly edited Heavy Metal, which won a British Fantasy Award in 1980. As a fan, his fanzine Blat!, edited with Dan Steffan, won a FAAn Award in 1994. He later won FAAn Awards for Fan Writer in 1998 and for Lifetime Achievement in 2009.
He is survived by his daughter, Arielle White, who also goes by Kit.
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